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Lucy and Henry hanging out in a zodiac that our town uses for Search and Rescue.

A winter/summer summit of Mount Temple

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Dan and Carl joined me for an attempt on Mount Temple to close out our hiking season. A 4am start from
my house meant we were on trail prior to sunup. Here's a look back to Mt Fay from the trail.

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A really nice look back at the Fay glacier as the sun is coming up.

Video of the meadow enroute to Sentinel Pass

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A look at the alpenglow on Mt Wenkchemna with Dan in the foreground.

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Dan and Carl looking back at the Valley of the Ten Peaks. Note the amount of snow at this elevation.

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Once we got to Sentinel Pass, I wanted a look at the Grand Sentinel. Look at the blue sky above Mt Lefroy.

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So, the route up Mt Temple is Here . It turns out that once you start
going above Sentinel Pass and there is ~20-180cm of snow, it gets a bit hard to see cairns. We did okay following
the directions, but there was a lot of slipping and fighting the talus/snow. Here's a look up the gully towards
the halfway point of the scramble.

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Once we cleared the first rock band, the snow started getting deeper in places, but more slippery in others.
Note Carl's skateboard helmet here, with a view back to Mt Deltaform. Considering how busy this route usually is,
it was pretty nice to have it to ourselves, even with the extra challenge of the snow.

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Dan taking a break with a view of Pinnacle (first peak) and Eiffel Peak behind him. Mt Hungabee is off his
left shoulder in the farther valley.

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Carl couldn't stop saying how awesome this day was. The views were unbelievable for sure. You can see a lot an awful
lot of the terrain in the area for sure. This shot is shortly before gaining the second grey rock band. We were pretty
happy we chose to bring gaitors as we were in snow to mid-knee pretty much from the time we left the pass.

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You can see a bit more of the challenge of a snow-covered scramble.

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Again, Carl loved this day. Here's his glamour shot from near 3000m.

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Deltaform Mountain was one of my favourite to look at on this day. It's quite asthetic and it's
a really useful reference point.

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As we moved our way through the 'light brown rock step', it got a bit sketchy due to both surface conditions
and the amount of snow. Here's Dan taking a load off before we pushed to the next ridge.

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Finally, after a pretty strong day of post-holing, kicking steps, and flailing in scree/talus with snow on top,
we made it to the summit. Check out the wind scoop looking down to the glacier.

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Mounts Hungabee, Lefroy, and Victoria from the summit of Mt Temple. I think without that far cloud layer,
we likely could have seen the Bugaboos. This took us 8.5 hours to summit from the trailhead, a much longer day
than we expected.

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Dan, Carl, and I on the summit of Mt Temple, looking north up the Bow Valley.

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Dan on the exit ridge, looking back to a field of peaks. This is the third highest peak in the southern
Rockies (behind Assiniboine and Robson), but it's in a glorious position.

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A cool look at the cornices on the east side of Temple's summit ridge. Thanks to Thomas, the random dude we met
on trail who led the final ridge push (after using all of our footsteps from the pass). Thanks also to Dan for
encouraging Carl and I to block the time to do this route. Next up Neil Colgan hut ?

Stats for the day

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Data showing the elevations. Note that I was ~100m low all day, as the summit of Mt Temple is 3544m. Note the
4959 calories burned. I was beat at the end of this day.